Learn about the Isolates & Effects pattern from @p_mbanugo at this year's #P99CONF. Peter will show how they achieved the fault-tolerance & mental simplicity of the Actor model, but with predictable, mechanically sympathetic native performance. https://t.co/vefHe0lYDD
#ScyllaDB
If you’ve ever watched a server crash during a traffic spike, your team's 1st instinct was probably to add a queue or increase its buffer size.
It feels like the safest, most intuitive response. But according to the laws of queueing theory, it guarantees a catastrophic failure.
As Fred Hebert famously wrote: "Queues don’t fix overload." They only absorb variance.
If you want a system to survive sustained overload, you cannot "just queue".
I just published a new deep-dive article on the physical laws of queues and backpressure. How the Latency Death Spiral actually works, and why unbounded queues are a bug.
[Read: Why Queues Don't Fix Overload (And What To Do Instead) →]
https://t.co/pQV5JTJ6OG
Thank you, Lord, for life, family, friends, colleagues, strangers, and acquaintances.
Thank you for the difficult times and for seasons when I almost gave up. Thank you for strength and the grace to persevere in gloomy days.
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